Events & News

2017

October:

Competition is open for applicants to join the first cohort of students in the new Soc-B Centre
for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Biosocial Science jointly funded by the
Economic & Social Research Council and the Biotechnology &
Biological Sciences Research Council.

October 31: Quarterly Centre Day

September 6-8: Society for Social Medicine (SSM), Annual Scientific Meeting

The next Society for social medicine conference will be hosted by University of Manchester. Abstracts on health services research, health policy, public health,
sociology, economics, psychology, epidemiology, statistics, qualitative
research and/or mixed methods research are welcomed, deadline is the 3rd March 2017. Please see link for more information http://www.hg3.co.uk/ssm/.

June 21: Policy Seminar - Isolation and Health

In the
last decade, the Europe 2020 strategy included targets to prevent older people
from being socially excluded and the Campaign to End Loneliness was launched in
the UK. With the relationship of health and well-being with social isolation
and loneliness being increasingly recognised, this seminar of four
presentations showcases recent research on longitudinal changes in health and
social isolation and what might be done to break the link between them. For further details please see seminar page.

January 11: WorkLife Blog

The International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and
Health (ICLS) is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) RES-596-28-0001 (2008 - 2012) ES/J019119/1 (2013 - 2017). ICLS is
a multidisciplinary research centre, directed by Professor Amanda
Sacker, that supports research at UCL, University of Manchester,
University of East London, University of Essex and Örebro University
Hospital Sweden. ICLS is part of the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care.